Pauline Flanagan (June 29, 1925 – June 28, 2003) was a County Sligo, Irish Free State-born actress who had a long career on stage. American television audiences best knew her as Annie Colleary on the soap opera Ryan's Hope.
Her family was deeply political and supported the Republican (anti-Treaty) side during the Irish Civil War. Both of her parents served as Lords Mayor of Sligo. She was good friends with fellow actresses Joan O'Hara (with whom she attended an Ursuline Convent school in Sligo) and the English-born Irish actress Paddy Croft, as well as British playwright Harold Pinter, whom she met while he was a young actor touring with the company of noted Shakespearean actor/manager Anew McMaster.
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She starred in 1976 Broadway revival of The Innocents.
A resident of Glen Rock, New Jersey, she died at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey one day before her 78th birthday of heart failure following a battle with lung cancer.[1] She was survived by her husband, George Vogel (whom she had married in 1958) and her two children. She is also survived by one sister, Maura McNally.
In 1997 she won an award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Jennifer Johnston's Desert Lullaby, at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
In 2001 she won an Olivier Award for her performance in Frank McGuinness' Dolly West's Kitchen.